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305 buildings cataloguedfirst entry May 23, 202620 added this week

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No. 305

Union Market

1925·Commercial·Downtown

A full-block market building in an eclectic revival mode, faced in speckled buff brick banded with terra-cotta ornament. The lower stories are set…

Added Sep 07
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No. 304

Old Union Market

1866·Commercial·Downtown

A nineteenth-century public market house of red brick in an Italianate manner. A long, low market shed ran the length of the block behind a taller…

Added Sep 07
No. 303

The German House

1928·Fraternal·Lafayette Square

A three-story building of mottled tan-and-brown tapestry brick trimmed in cream terra cotta, in a Flemish-Renaissance manner. Its center rises to a…

Added Sep 07
No. 302

The Saum

1926·Hotel·Shaw

A nine-story apartment tower in the Spanish and Mediterranean Revival mode, built of variegated tapestry brick above a two-story base faced in cream…

Added Sep 07
RAZED
No. 301

Battery A Armory

ca. 1889·Government·Tiffany

A castellated brick armory built like a medieval fortress. A massive round crenellated tower anchored the rounded corner at Grand and Rutger, pierced…

Added Sep 06
No. 300

Syndicate Trust Building

1907·Commercial·Downtown

Rising sixteen stories, the Syndicate Trust Building is sheathed entirely in cream glazed terra cotta worked into unusually dense ornament. A…

Added Sep 06
No. 299

Stix, Baer & Fuller

1906·Commercial·Downtown

The former Grand-Leader store fills its downtown block in brown and red brick over a two-story base faced in green and black marble. Colossal brick…

Added Sep 06
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No. 298

Grand Opera House

1885·Theater·Downtown

Behind its Market Street frontage, the Grand Opera House seated roughly 1,600 in an auditorium built as an orchestra floor beneath two deep, curving…

Added Sep 06

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Sep 06+2Lindell Theatre, Powell Symphony Hall
Sep 05+3Continental Baking Company Bakery, St. Augustine’s Catholic Church, Statler Hotel
Sep 04+4Olympic Theatre (1866), Olympic Theatre (1882), Odeon Theatre, New Grand Central Theatre
Sep 01+3St. Ambrose Church, South Side National Bank, Southwestern Bell Building
Aug 31+4Missouri Crematory, Lily Pond Pavilion, Cypress North Pavilion, Soulard Branch Library
Aug 30+2Seventh District Police Station, Shriners’ Hospital For Crippled Children
Aug 25+2Security Building, Scottish Rite Cathedral
Aug 24+6The Pennsylvania Building, The Park Plaza Hotel, People’s Hospital, Republic National Bank, Orpheum Theater, The Paul Brown Building
Aug 23+4The Music Stand, United States Custom House and Post Office (Third and Olive), Old Post Office, New Masonic Temple
Aug 22+4Lindell Hotel, The Ruins, King-Brinsmade Mercantile Company Building, National Electric Company Building
Aug 21+7Moolah Temple, Missouri State Life Insurance Company Building, Missouri Pacific Railroad Hospital, Missouri Theatre Building, Missouri Pacific Building, Mississippi Valley Trust Company Building, Mercantile Trust Company Building
Aug 20+4McMillan Hospital, Stars Park, Booker T. Washington Theatre, Pine Street YMCA
Aug 19+3Vashon Community Center, The Mayfair Hotel, City Hospital No. 2
Aug 18+4Vashon High School, St. Malachy Church, Humboldt North Pavilion, Alexander von Humboldt Statue
Aug 17+5Lincoln School (1867), The Peoples Finance Building, Martin Luther King Junior Bridge, Smith Academy (ca. 1879), Magic Chef Headquarters
Aug 14+3MacArthur Bridge, Liberty Hospital, Laclede Gas Light Building
Aug 13+3Merchant's Laclede Building, Insane Asylum, Hotel Jefferson
Aug 12+1Old Playground Pavilion
Aug 11+3Sons of Rest Pavilion, Grand Avenue Water Tower, Hotel DeSoto
Aug 10+1The Frisco Building
Aug 09+4Old Carriage Shelter, Humboldt Building, Metropolitan Building, Crunden-Martin Warehouses
Aug 08+5The Chemical Building, The Chouteau Building, Holland Building, International Life Building, Title Guaranty Building
Aug 07+2Buder Building, The Chase Hotel
Aug 06+15Clinton School (1868), Stoddard School, Rock Spring School (1898), Rock Spring School (1870), Oriel Building, Meramec School (1910), Meramec School (1867), McKinley High School, Lambert Building, Jaccard Building, Hamilton Brown Shoe Factory, Curlee Clothing Company Building, Blow School (1883), Blow School (1858), Hamilton-Brown Sunlight Factory
Aug 04+1Emerson Electric Company Building
Aug 03+2University City High School, Lambert-Deacon-Hull Printing Company Building
Aug 02+4Turner Open Air School, Stowe Teachers College (1938), Sumner High School (1895), Sumner High School (1910)
Aug 01+5Sherman School, Sigel School, Southwest High School (1937), Smith Academy (1856), Smith Academy (1905)
Jul 31+3Simmons School (1898), Roe School (1888), Roe School (1919)
Jul 30+3O’Fallon Technical High School, Lafayette School (1907), Mount Pleasant School
Jul 29+1Monroe School
Jul 28+7Lowell School (1878), Lowell School, Maplewood High School, Mark Twain School, Charless School (1859), Madison School, Madison School (1870)
Jul 27+4Betty Wheeler Classical Junior Academy, Peabody School, Humboldt School (1908), Lindenwood School
Jul 26+4Ames School, Hempstead School, Gratiot School, Shaw School
Jul 25+4Franklin School (1857), Franklin School (1909), Fremont School, Gallaudet School for the Deaf
Jul 24+3Bell Telephone Building, Polytechnic Building, Union Trust Building
Jul 23+2The Coronado Hotel, Homer G. Phillips Hospital
Jul 22+2Tenth District Police Station, Shell Building
Jul 21+2Central High School (1893), St. Louis High School (1855)
Jul 20+2Lyon School, Patrick Henry School
Jul 18+2Irving School, Engine House No. 6
Jul 17+3Fifth District Police Station, Police Headquarters, Four Courts Building
Jul 16+2Froebel School, Field School
Jul 15+3City Jail (Municipal Courts), City Jail (Sixth and Chestnut), Lindell Real Estate Company Building
Jul 14+2Dorsa Building, Bee Hat Company Building
Jul 13+1Boatmen's Bank Building
Jul 12+5Columbia Building, Liggett & Myers / Rice-Stix Building, Maryland Hotel, J. Kennard & Sons Carpet Company Building, LaSalle Building
Jul 11+2St. Louis Republic Building, Lennox Hotel
Jul 10+1Pierre Laclede School
Jul 09+3Wright-Arcade Building, St. Michael's Church, Hamilton Elementary School
Jul 08+3Woodward School, Wellston High School, Walbridge School
Jul 07+6Webster School, Webster School (1853), Webster School (1866), Robinson Elementary School, Keysor Elementary School, Wyman School
Jul 06+2Harris Teachers College, Gundlach School
Jul 05+4Oak Hill School, Frank P. Blair School, Mallinckrodt School, Social Evil Hospital
Jul 04+2Ferguson-McKinney Dry Goods Company Building, Soldiers Memorial Military Museum
Jul 03+3Jefferson Memorial Building, Municipal Courts Building, Walnut Park School
Jul 02+7Scullin School, Dewey School, Scruggs School, Carr Lane School, F.D. Seward Confectionary Company, St. Louis Public Schools Stadium, Euclid School
Jul 01+6Long School, Henry Chouteau Mansion, St. Louis Arena, Sportsman's Park, Darst-Webbe, Hutcheson Arms Apartments
Jun 30+7St. Louis Coliseum, Finney Building, Carter Carburetor Corporation, Mason School, Mermod-Jaccard Building (Broadway and Locust), Mermod-Jaccard Building (Fifth and Olive), St. Louis Federal Savings and Loan Association
Jun 29+6Harrison School, Stoddard School (First Building), Colored School No. 6, Banneker School (1940), Colored School No. 5, Shenandoah School
Jun 28+13Jean Pierre Chouteau House, Jean Baptiste Roy House, Old Rock House, Emerson School, Ira C. Divoll School, Garfield School (original), Garfield School (1936), Boatmen's Bank Building (1890), Norvell-Shapleigh Hardware Company Building, Shapleigh Hardware Warehouse No. 3, Forest Park Hotel, Kirkwood High School, Gardenville School
Jun 27+14Frisco Hospital, Famous-Barr Parking Garage, Eliot School, Fanning School, Eastman Kodak Building, DeMenil Building, Merchants Exchange Building, National Bank of Commerce, New Bank of Commerce Building, Planters House Hotel (1841), Planters House Hotel (1894), Mercantile Club Building, Dunbar School, Dorris Motor Car Company
Jun 26+8Cochran Gardens, Divoll Library, Des Peres School, Pruitt-Igoe, Detroit Electric Car Company, Delmar Harvard Elementary School, Rialto Theatre, Rialto Building
Jun 25+5Samuel Cupples School, Continental Life Building, The Naked Truth, Compton Hill Water Tower, Columbia Theater
Jun 24+4Meyer Brothers Drug Company, Globe-Democrat Building, Columbia School, Cole School
Jun 23+5Delaney School, Civil Courts Building, City Hall, Central Institute For The Deaf, Ambassador Theatre
Jun 22+4The Century Building, Carter Carburetor Headquarters, Knights of Pythias Hall, Carpenter Branch Library
Jun 21+9Barr Branch Library, Carondelet Branch Library, Cabanne Branch Library, Bradford-Martin Building, Board of Education Building, Blustein's Bride's House Building, Belleville Masonic Temple, Bear Pits at Fairgrounds Park, Ashland School
Jun 20+1Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital
Jun 19+2Clark School, Central High School
Jun 18+2Arlington School, Cleveland High School
Jun 14+1Bryan Hill School
Jun 13+1Baden School
Jun 11+7Clay School, Carr School (1909), Carondelet School, Buder School, Blow School (1903), Beaumont High School, Adams School
Jun 09+2American Brake Company, Railway Exchange Building
Jun 07+1Eads Bridge
May 29+1Missouri Athletic Club
May 23+4The Wainwright Building, The Fox Theater, Soldan High School, Lemp Brewery

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